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EVOLUTION 



OF THE 



INDIVIDUAL 

A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE 

NATURAL IvAWS OF GROWTH AND 

HOW TO ATTAIN MENTAL 

AND BODILY FREEDOM 



BY 



FRANK NFWIyAND DOUD, M. D. 



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Copyright, 1901, 
By Frank Newland Doud. 



PREFACE. 



Men and women are filled with phy- 
sical and mental unrest. They are suf- 
fering from an inexpressible and seem- 
ingly unexplainable weariness. The 
human mind is groping for relief. It 
has revolted from "the pace that kills. "■ 
Legislation has not affected a cure nor 
afforded a panacea. But Somewhere 
there must be a remedy. Nature nor 
God never intended that the heart and 
the mind should be deprived of content- 
ment, ease and peace. Or, if so deprived, 
that men and women might not restore 
themselves to a normal state by the ex- 
ercise of a reasonable amount of com- 
mon sense. 

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4 PREFACE. 

Natural laws have been in existence 
since the beginning of things. They 
are within the knowledge of any man or 
woman willing to obey them. To per- 
ceive and follow them is but to remove 
from the eye of the mind the veil of pre- 
judice, bias and ignorance. The Creator 
of all Things never concealed the Truth. 
If it cannot be seen the fault rests with 
the human mind. 

The law of rest, of mental equipoise, 
of exerted will power, of mental as well 
as physical strength, is to be known 
through the mere willingness of any 
one to know. The truths offered in 
the following chapters are not a scien- 
tific dissertation upon certain well- 
known natural laws, not a treatise nor 
thesis, but a few simple suggestions of 
how to most easily and quickly reach 
the Truth — knowledge of the law of 



PREFACE. 



spiritual and physical contentment and 
growth. Human life is hungry for Rest. 
Rest is here offered. 

The Author. 



CHAPTER I. 



CHILD-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 



Human life has its inception in the 
child and the growth or evolution of a 
child from the suckling babe to posses- 
sion of the qualities of perception, dis- 
crimination and judgment is the most 
wonderful phenomena the world has 
had given to it by natural law, 

A child yet warm upon the cheek 
from cozening the mother's breast is a 
god in freedom of action and first 
thought-impressions. He passes from 
one stage of development to another 
with the ease and fleetness of a new- 
winged Mercury. He is unhampered by 



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the physical ailments of later years or 
the future doubts, unrest and bias of the 
mind. 

The meaning of the swirl of life 
about him is unknown. The cause of 

human actions is to him as a sealed 
book. He toils not, neither does he 
spin, but (if he have ordinarily good 
health) he is a fairy sprite in a wonder- 
land he does not understand, but which 
is marvellously fascinating. Be he de- 
cently clothed and sensibly fed he is un- 
hampered, a king in a world he does not 
understand, master, without care of 
knowledge; supreme. 

As his eyes open more and more to 
the apparent splendors of his possessions 
he distinguishes bright colors and hears 
voices. He does not pretend to separate 
the colors into their prismatic classes, 
nor to separate the gruff voice from the 



CHII,D-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 9 

sweet one, except that the former opens 
his eyes a trifle farther than the latter. 
In a little time he shall know his own 
voice and not be startled by it. For the 
present it is sufficient to him that his 
juvenile sense of sight and hearing have 
been appealed to. 

In but a few weeks he is master of 
the household. His nod is more potent 
than the sway of scepters. His troubles 
are the troubles of all. He dimly per- 
ceives that any agitation upon his own 
part brings him attention and caresses, 
not so frequent when he is at rest. He 
is the center of a household, whose 
sweet mysteries he is to master before 
the world outside shall be approached 
by him. His growth is upward. All 
his inward sources of energy are welling 
upward. He is building, not destroy- 



10 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

ing. He is conserving or storing up, 
not exhausting. 

He passes into new stages. The 
horizon of the household is now too nar- 
row for him. He must look beyond. 
His mind grows more retentive. Things 
once unknown, or perceived and not 
understood, now take on a definite mean- 
ing. He is absorbing knowledge and 
making more or less effort to classify 
and assimilate the same. He is still a 
great human reservoir of power, not 
drained by leaks and wastes, not falsely 
tapped by those thieves of the mind 
through whom all human Unrest be- 
comes the nightmare of living and being. 

Thus the child, now boy, and now 
young master, passes like a god from 
one plane of life to another — each tran- 
sition a step upward — until he enters 
the age of reason. To this instant he 



CHILD-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 11 

has been bold, strenuous, confident, as 
becomes a prince of the palaces and 
kingdom of Nature. Life to this 
moment has been to him a song, a 
rythm of the heart, finding constant 
expression upon the lips. All youth is 
represented by poets and philosophers 
as coming up to the serious responsibil- 
ities of life with a song, the fanfare of 
trumpets and the melody of sweet 
strings. Intuitively, poet and philoso- 
pher recognize that the first stages of 
youth are guarded by the handmaid 
Hope and her companion, Inspiration. 
Why, then, should the song cease, the 
singer's lips become dumb, when the 
hand of Reason is taken for all future 
guidance? Does Reason wear a shroud 
or come ,to Youth with roses and the 
wreath of laurel? 

But, by false impressions, false intu- 



12 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

itions and false example, the youth now 
approaching manhood faces Reason, 
hesitates, halts, stops, and, at last, in 
natural force, brain energy and bodily 
strength begin to travel downward, 
no longer upward, until all he gained in 
earlier years is lost and he is laid in his 
grave with the ashes of his hopes. 

Since the world began, since man 
first perceived his own possibilities, 
there has been no problem so near to his 
dearest hopes as that of prolonging 
Youth, of banishing Age, of keeping 
the song as sweet (if not sweeter) on 
the lips at fifty than when the lips 
were but sixteen. 

Why should the decline begin with 
the approach of Reason and the matur- 
ing of the body? Why, after physical 
maturity is reached, should the human 
mind turn toward the open grave 



CHIIyD-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 13 

beyond and not fix its thought upon the 
stars of the heavens? Why, because 
the body is rounded out, the limbs in 
full possession of their powers, should 
the growth of thought, self-power, 
mental vitality and acute comprehen- 
sion cease? Where is there a law of 
Nature that bids such stoppage of 
growth? Why should man or woman 
falter at that moment when they are 
nearest to the greatest possible human 
strength, turn back, and descend to 
the grave with the falling of tears? 
What arrests their onward growth and 
progress? 

These questions thinkers have been 
asking since the days of Plato, since 
Atlantis was and passed away, since 
the Egyptians studied the stars, and 
the Christ walked by Galilee and 
taught the human being lessons of self- 



14 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL 

denial. The answers to these questions 
contain every principle upon which 
life, growth and happiness depend. 
The questions concern each individual 
life in existence. The answers pre- 
dicate the eternal happiness of each 
individual life, if accepted in the 
spirit of Truth. It is the duty of 
the individual to seek these answers, 
feeling that in the research and final 
triumph, the first principles of life, and 
therefore of the universe, will work 
themselves out, bringing in their train 
mastery of bodily ills and perpetual rest 
and peace for the mental powers. It is 
with the individual first facing the 
realm of Reason that we pass on to a 
consideration of the questions which 
perplex all mankind. 



CHAPTER II 



THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS, 



Science has long since accepted the 
theory of vibrations as a fact. We 
know now that objects appearing solid 
to our vision are in reality composed of 
atoms. These atoms are vibrating with 
a rapidity not measurable by the ordi- 
nary inventions of man. The X or 
Roentgen ray passes between these 
atoms as an arrow might be shot be- 
tween the spokes of a rapidly revolving 
wheel. 

The vibratory and atomic theories 
are intense realities now. Hence it is 
no longer difficult for the reasoner or 

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16 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

the searcher for Truth to determine 
that the only actual difference between 
a piece of gold, a granite pebble, hy- 
drogen gas or a limestone block, is 
the speed and character of the vibra- 
tions. It is easy to recognize then that 
all matter in the universe is of but one 
substance, whose attributes and seen 
and unseen manifestations depend en- 
tirely upon the nature of the vibra- 
tions. 

Nor is it impossible for the finite 
mind to then comprehend that the terms 
' ' spirit' ' and ' 'matter" are but terms; 
that in truth they are one, and that the 
realms higher than the ordinary stage 
of living are but planes on which higher 
and finer vibrations prevail than those 
affecting mankind living in ordinary 
conditions. It matters not that these 
vibrations of ethereal spheres seem to us 



THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 17 

unsubstantial; they would not if our 
minds and bodies were fitted to receive 
them. So it naturally follows if spirit 
and matter are one, only changing 
in characteristics as the vibratory force 
changes, mind and matter are one and 
not distinct substances. 

The mind is but the higher vibra- 
tions of the same origin as the order of 
lower vibrations that produce the body. 
In conformity to universal law the 
higher vibrations dominate and mold or 
shape the lower; the mind controls the 
body. 

Once the mind normally accustoms 
itself to the thought that the universe 
is composed of but one substance a 
vast array of misconceptions are re- 
moved. They are cast aside as useless 
garments which have only served to 
impede progress. Then the mind draws 



18 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

nearer to clear appreciation of the unity, 
the oneness, of all things, and compre- 
hends as never before the plan of 
Creation. Omnipresence, the power of 
the Universal Spirit, the Om Padme 
Horn of the Buddhist, the Tao of the 
Chinese, dawn upon the mind as reali- 
ties, no longer shadowy outlines of a 
dead and distant Past. 

In serious thought of the law of 
vibrations it must be taken into consid- 
eration that the sun is now vibrating at 
an infinitely higher rate than the earth 
or any of the planets. This superb orb 
is to us the source of all life-motion, 
life-energy, and power. If it were not 
giving off its fine vibrations gravity and 
stasis would have full sway and not 
even a blade of grass could force its way 
through the bosom of the earth, up- 
ward, to greet its source of strength. 



THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 19 

The fine vibrations which emanate from 
the sun contain the only life or vital 
power we know, and the only force we 
can feel and measure. Without these 
vibrations the earth could not support 
a single living cell. 

There would be neither microbes nor 
men, for the power of the sun is practi- 
cally the one and only power we know. 
It is the great motive-energy center of 
this planet. Make this knowledge 
practical to yourself. Open your mind, 
be receptive, and understand that in 
listening to the chords of a symphony, 
in rushing through space upon a loco- 
motive, in cheering over the power of 
an oration, in weeping or rejoicing, you 
are but witnessing and manifesting the 
power which comes to us from the sun, 
and from the sun alone. 

The candle light, the flash of elec- 



20 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

tricity, the drop of the rain, the swirl 
of the wind, the flow of streams, as well 
as the ebb and flow of human activity, 
are all but different manifestations of 
the power of the sun taken in, refracted 
and reflected by earth and man. Growth 
and development of power in plants, 
animals and man hinge upon the abil- 
ity of each to absorb the high vibra- 
tions from the sun and assimilate them 
with the lower earth vibrations. 
Growth and life are but manifestations 
of sun and earth vibrations. The sun 
vibrations are the finer and work in- 
wardly; those of the earth work out- 
wardly and are the lower or coarser. 
The earth vibrations predominate in 
the bones and those of the sun in the 
brain. 

When the sun and earth, eons ago, 
were both fiery balls of gas, life mani- 



THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 21 

festations on earth were not possible. 
Life came only when the earth vibra- 
tions were so lowered that a vast differ- 
ence existed between their rate and 
those of the sun. The sun remained, 
and is fiery and homogeneous. Upon 
the cooling and vibration-decreasing 
earth individualized concrete matter 
appeared. The difference between the 
sun and earth vibrations produced the 
phenomena of life. Individualized mat- 
ter preceded the coming or evolution of 
the individual. Rock cannot grow or 
take on life form until it disintegrates; 
takes on a greater vibratory motion. 
For rock to produce even vegetable life 
it must be blended with the higher 
vibrations of water and the still higher 
of nitrogen and oxygen. Then the com- 
bined vibrations may rise to such a rate 
as to permit the integration of still 



22 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

higher vibrations from the sun. Mani- 
festation of life will follow such pro- 
cess. 

All life forms are composed of vibra- 
tions, scaled from the individualized 
matter of earth upward through those 
of water and the gases of nitrogen, 
oxygen and so on to the fine vibrations of 
the sun. All sun vibrations are distinct 
from earth vibrations. The sun vibra- 
tion is the power that applied to the 
ingredients of earth forms them first 
into vegetable and then animal shapes. 
Under their influence lime, soda, and 
their kindred substances cease to be 
inert matter and become living, potent- 
ial factors. 

In man the greatest sun-power or 
vibration is not his bone, his blood, the 
matter of his heart, the strands of his 
sinew and muscle. There is but one 



THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 23 

center in man in which the sun -power is 
fully and freely detected. In his brain 
are the manifestations of the power of 
the source of all light, heat and life. 
The definition of mind is strangely like 
that of sun-power or life. The sun is 
the source of all life. It destroys the 
inertia of earth. Vegetable life lifts its 
tops away from earth to the sky under 
its influence. The animal evolutes from 
a few cells to a thing that moves freely 
over the earth by force of this sun- 
power. The complex body of man de- 
velops under its influence gaining the 
five senses and a rational mind. 

It is not then illogical nor to be dis- 
t puted by mere assertion to affirm that 
the sun is the great mind center of the 
earth and that all life forms are but 
manifestations of sun- vibrations. This 
does not imply either that the sun- 



24 evolution of The individual. 

vibration is but material and that man 
has but an animal origin and an animal 
end. The sun can yet but be known to 
us as a mass of fire and gas. Astron- 
omers now believe that we only see an 
envelope of condensed luminous matter 
around the sun and that the great center 
itself is to us invisible because too fine 
and of too rapid a vibration for our eyes 
to perceive. We owe to the sun light 
and heat, and as life would not be pos- 
sible with these absent we therefore owe 
to it our very existence. If we owe 
our material shapes to the sun why is 
it not responsible for our finer con- 
sciousness, that which we call mind, the 
dominating factor of all human life. 
There are invisible sun rays just as the 
arc light or the gas jet gives off rays 
unseen by the human eye. That we 
have perception of any but the broader, 



THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 25 

coarser sun rays or vibrations is doubt- 
ful. But it is not doubtful to science 
or philosophy that so far as our exist- 
ence is concerned it begins with the sun 
and is controlled by it. 

Mind and matter are inter-related. 
The mind shapes and matter is rela- 
tively inert. The sun and earth are 
closely related, the sun molding, the 
earth now relatively inert. The earth 
vibrations are vastly less than those of 
the sun and less potent. Is it not prob- 
able that the mental element in all 
human life is identical with the sun ele- 
ment, which we know is an absolutely 
essential factor of life? Consciousness 
seems to be born where sun and earth, 
mental and physical vibrations meet. 
The ceaseless action of the internal, 
directing sun life and the reaction of 
the earth vibrations evolves the plane 



26 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

of conscious life. Psychologists have 
always written of the threshold plane 
of consciousness. 

In the minute vegetable and animal 
forms the play of life forces is slight 
and consciousness is only perceived 
through the microscope of logic. 

But as the forms grow from the 
comparatively stolid vegetable to the 
more complex animal plane, the measure 
of consciousness increases with the en- 
ergy until in man it reaches a degree 
designated as self-consciousness. 

Consciousness after all is but the 
attrition of outward and inward forces, 
one upon the other, and all having their 
origin in the sun and the earth-mass 
itself. Attrition produces change and 
change provokes knowledge, and knowl- 
edge is but consciousness of things. If 
concentration of mind be attempted, 



THE) THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 27 

reduction of thought to a single focus 
follows, sense of life ceases, and we 
have what is termed sleep. And sleep 
is but conscious life absorbed for the 
time in the inner and finer sun vibra- 
tions of the mind. It is but renewal, 
fresh preparation for a return of con- 
sciousness, and participation in the 
affairs of earth life. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 



We have taken the child from his 
birth to where he faces Reason, hesi- 
tates and retreats. We have seen how 
plausible and logical it is that the force- 
giving power of life, the basis of the 
brain and the body, the support of spir- 
itual and physical life, radiates from 
the sun, aided by individualized earth 
vibrations. We have taken into due 
consideration the scientific fact that 
many, perhaps a majority of sun vibra- 
tions as well as those of earth, are not 
only unseen, but so subtle in their in- 
fluence that they are not even felt con- 
sciously. 

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THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 29 

Let us further consider the things 
seen and unseen, that which we know 
by sight and that which we realize but 
by logic, although capable (with devel- 
opment) of knowing. Two phases of 
one force, two influences from one 
source, cause all the phenomena of the 
visible world. The forming of a sun, 
the flaming of a candle, the production 
of a poem are but manifestations of 
these common yet differing influences. 

Use of the eyes, of a microscope or 
a telescope but reveal the working of 
these twin phases. The man lifting 
steel bars, the builder of a steamship, 
the writer of a sonata, is only in a sense 
the servant of these powers. But let 
us add a thought to this truth. That 
is, that all things or forms, whether 
celestial or terrestial, sun or river, star 
or forest, came from an unseen to a seen 



30 EVOLUTION OF THK INDIVIDUAL. 

stage, and must inevitably return to the 
unseen. This journey to and return, is 
to man — life — to matter — eternity. All 
the operations of the universe of which 
we are cognizant take place during this 
journey. Is this doubted ? 

Stand in the Iyick Observatory on 
that great point overlooking the Pacific 
and glance through the lens made by 
Clark, the largest in the world. You 
see nothing but a blur of light, a white 
mass filled with dark holes, some rings, 
and the like. L<et an astronomer take 
your place and he sees just what has 
been asserted, the journey of matter 
from the unseen to the seen, the forma- 
tion of solar systems upon precisely the 
same plan as our own was evolved from 
a space filled with gas or ether. 

He sees out of the invisible the first 
leap of the nebula — that which we call 



THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 31 

the Milky Way. He sees it swirl to 
that form in which it is light and heat- 
giving. He notes the appearance of 
the floculi, the shaping of a fiery ball 
which for a time has a flaming tail. 
This ball has a diameter of millions of 
miles. Condensation comes, the diam- 
eter is reduced, portions of the ball 
shoot off, satellary planets are formed, 
rings and a central part or hub. Vapors 
sweep over the new formed planets 
until they are reduced to water; and 
when the waters part and seek their 
final place the concrete earth appears 
and is kissed by the dawn-dip of a sun. 
This sun is still luminous, fiery, but 
the planets in which the work of con- 
densation has been more rapid are com- 
paratively inert. Why? What is the 
underlying principle of this creation of 
something from nothing. What has 



32 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

dragged matter from the invisibility of 
space? Natural philosophy, science, 
answer — loss of motion, loss of certain 
activities, a slowing of the vibrations. 
Think you this is impossible? Attach 
a steel rod to an engine which can give 
it vibrations as rapid as 1,000,000 or 
2,000,000 a minute and you shall see part 
of that self-same rod dissolve and disap- 
pear into space, unseen, then when the 
vibratory power ceases there remains 
but a lessened lump of steel needing 
again the fashioning of man. 

So in the formation of the planets 
when from the invisible some vibratory 
force was taken through a law we need 
not inquire into, there appeared a 
vapor of light and as the loss of activity 
continued this vapor condensed and 
shaped until a solid earth rose from the 
Unknown to the Known and the seas 



The seen and the unseen, 33 

laved the sands upon which primeval 
man was to trace his way upward and 
onward to the goal of rest and perfec- 
tion. This is the process, through 
which our earth passed and all there is 
upon it and the cycle will have been 
completed when all manifestation shall 
have ceased and that which is seen 
returns to the unseen and is one with 
the beginning and the end. 

Thus we see that the two phases 
influencing all natural phenomena are 
those of loss of motion and its reaction, 
an absorption of motion. They have 
two other names perhaps more plain to 
the ordinary mind — integration and dis- 
integration. Integration is the loss or 
cessation of vibratory force and the 
coming into the seen or known; disin- 
tegration is the absorption of motion 
or activity and return to the invisible. 



34 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

We may then venture another asser- 
tion. The quality of all life, whether 
vegetable or animal, depends upon 
whether integration or passing into 
* the visible, or disintegration, passing 
into the invisible, is dominant, and in 
what proportion. The seed in the 
ground will disintegrate without sun- 
influence. When the warm rays enter 
or integrate, it bursts its casing and 
moves upward to the surface of the 
earth to obtain a still greater integra- 
tion. So long as a tree or plant can 
absorb sun-energy integration proceeds; 
when this is no longer possible disin- 
tegration follows. Any slowing of 
vibrations or hardening in plant or 
animal life means a consequent shutting 
out of sun-energy and then disintegra- 
tion, or dissolution follows. With dis- 
integration completed — absorption of 



?HE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 35 

motion and raising of vibration — there 
is a new storage of sun-energy, an ability 
to again vibrate in harmony with the 
sun, and a return in a life-form to the 
seen or integrate. 

It is important that the conception 
of disintegration be as clear in the mind 
as that of integration or the growing 

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visible and returning to the invisible; 
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illustrated by taking as an example the 
different characters of hydrogen and 
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In this case integration or slowing 
of vibrations and condensation begins 



36 EVOttmON OF THE) INDIVIDUAL. 

when two items of hydrogen unite with 
one of oxygen forming steam which is 
also invisible. A further lowering of 
vibrations produces steam vapor which 
is the same as we see escaping from loco- 
motives or issuing from the teapot. 
More loss of vibratory force gives water 
and the additional loss of motion gives 
solid ice. All these changes were pro- 
duced solely by the lowering of the 
vibrations of the atoms. As motion is 
absorbed the same stages are passed 
through back to the unseen gases, which 
corresponds to disintegration. 

Returning to the tree when it first 
pushes through the ground as a tiny 
green shoot its atoms vibrate about as 
rapidly as water. There is, however, 
a gradual hardening or slowing of the 
vibrations until in time it becomes so 
low a rate of vibration that it is no 



THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 37 

longer attuned to the sun vibrations, 
then integration ceases and disintegra- 
tion begins. Disintegration is a slow 
burning which raises the vibrations and 
resolves most of the form into invisible 
gases leaving only a handful of earthy 
matter or ashes. When the tree stops 
growing it is like the ice and like that 
when motion is absorbed the atoms go 
towards the invisible and are ready to 
become part of another form. 

Disintegration means the destruction 
of the individual tree or life form, but 
the restoration of the atoms to a vibra- 
tory rate that again puts them in the 
current of life. 

The journey is unceasing. It knows 
no such word as "Death." It is a 
process of formation and reformation 
regulated by the rate of vibration. It 
is a pendulum perpetually swinging 



38 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

from the seen to the unseen and back 
again. It cannnot end until earth and 
moon and sun and stars have gone their 
appointed way and swung back again, 
for the last time, into the ethereal, 
unseen region from which they first 
came. 

Man's body, it is estimated, when 
resolved into its elements occupies at 
least twenty times the space it does as 
a living organism, and when disinteg- 
rated leaves only a handful of ashes. 
The three gases, oxygen, hydrogen and 
nitrogen alone form 83.6 per cent, of its 
entire weight. The marvelous human 
manifestations of power are obtained 
by the reduction of these gases and still 
finer sun vibrations to the living form 
with but a little individualized earthy 
matter as a foundation. Just as in- 



The seen and the unseen. 39 

visible steam when it loses some of its 
vibratory force becomes visible and 
gives this force to move the engine, and 
electricity loses some of its invisible 
vibration when it lights a lamp or pro- 
pels a motor, human power is produced 
by the invisible becoming visible. 

There is no manifestation of life 
motion or power in the universe, except 
as it comes primarily from a slowing 
or an increasing of the vibration of the 
atoms. 

All forms are continually receiving 
atoms from the invisible, or losing them 
into the invisible. The animal bodies 
are both receiving and giving off. The 
atoms which are just coming into a 
visible structure by losing motion, that 
is integrating, or just leaving it, dis- 
integrating, produce the aura of matter 



40 



EVOLUTION OF The individual 



visible under certain conditions, as 
shown in Reichenbach's experiments. 






CHAPTER IV. 



THE CHECKING OF GROWTH, 



Returning to the child we will en- 
deavor to make clear the manner in 
which youth gradually shuts out the 
integrating growing force, and comes 
under the dominance of disintegration 
and dissolution. 

Physiologically, we know, that the 
body and brain of the child develop at 
a higher rate of vibration than those of 
the grown person. The child's physique 
and brain structure, are soft, pliable, 
elastic, contain more gases and less 
earthy matter than those of the adult. 
Their fine, high rate of vibration brings 
them into clear harmony with those fine 

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42 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

and higher vibrations of the sun, and 
we have seen that it is the influx of the 
sun-vibrations or energy which produces 
life and growth. 

Because the child is in harmony with 
the sun-energy it grows stronger and 
more powerful each year in spite of the 
enormous amount of energy it gives off 
in performing the functions of living. 
But as time passes the child mind be- 
comes filled with the images of the 
material shapes surrounding it. Its 
thoughts and desires are concentrated 
upon the low earth vibrations, those far 
removed from the sun's force. 

This concentration upon the vibra- 
tions which are low enough to be rec- 
ognized by the senses gradually serves 
to bring the body to the same low rate 
of vibration, turns the mind away from 
the invisible, and prevents the influx or 



the checking of growth. 43 

integration of the sun energy. The 
body and brain become like the trunk of 
a tree, sans the fine, soft leaves — the 
leaves that alone can receive the sun 
vibrations which give the capacity to 
grow. 

Upon the same principle the musi- 
cian who thought only of business 
would in time have little in common 
with his art. The woman who becomes 
a household drudge gets into an en- 
tirely different world from that of her 
girlhood days, and she can no more take 
up their arts and accomplishments than 
she can those of some unknown business. 

As stated, there is a gradual dimin- 
uition of the vibrations and a drawing 
closer together of the bodily atoms after 
the flush of youth, which continues 
during the passage from thence to full 
maturity and old age. It is not sufficient 



4 4 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

for healthful existence to keep the body 
supplied with pure food and air; with 
the absorption of these earth and in- 
direct sun vibrations the mind must 
absorb some invisible vibrations direct 
from the sun. If this does not take 
place the system expends more energy 
than it receives, and the deficiency is 
supplied by the bodily atoms drawing 
closer together, following a well-known 
law. 

The mind can receive vibrations 
from the sun directly and the body, 
indirectly, through food and air. The 
system of the child is open to receive 
freely both direct and indirect sun 
vibrations, and there is as much crea- 
tive force in existence for the parents 
as the child. The one advantage which 
the child has over the parents is in the 
recent and fresh poising of the mind, 



THE CHECKING OF GROWTH. 45 

a mind not yet warped by an accumula- 
tion of sense-impressions or images of 
material things. The rate of vibrations 
is higher in the child than in the parents 
and therefore more in harmony with the 
vibrations of the sun. 

Creative power does not lie in things 
or shapes, for all forms are partly, at 
least, under the domination of the disin- 
tegrating principle. Creative power is 
only manifested by passage from the 
unseen to the seen. It cannot be taken 
out of things but must come from the 
unseen. 

Things or shapes bar an influx of 
power, as rocks in profusion destroy the 
richness of a garden. Man's past and 
present anxiety has been confined to his 
relations to the material things and 
personalities he can perceive with his 
five senses. He has blinded brain and 



46 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL,. 

its capacities to knowledge of the finer 
power which alone gave him life — which 
alone can sustain life and make it 
one perpetual growth upward. His 
mind is like the plant which hidden from 
the sun by banks of earth, droops, fades 
in the darkness and damp and finally 
dies. Yet the plant when first drawn 
from the earth by the sun power, when 
first influenced by it, was vigorous and 
growing. Deprivation of necessary sun 
power ended its existence. 

The entire question of prolonging 
youth indefinitely, of discovering Ponce 
de Leon's Fountain of Youth; of draw- 
ing always nearer and nearer to the 
Happy Isles, the Land of EJlysia, is 
simply the decipherable problem of 
maintaining body and brain at the same 
high rate of vibration, that is, in har- 
mony with the fine vibrations given out 



THE CHECKING OF GROWTH. 47 

by the sun, and receiving a persistent and 
unending influx of them. The necessary, 
certain result is a perpetual growth in 
strength, power and mastery. 

As the vibrations of the body are re- 
duced in rate they are less in harmony 
with the sun vibrations. In time the sun 
power is barred. The body finds closer 
relations with the low, earth vibrations. 
It literally descends to the earth level 
and yields itself a slave to the force of 
gravity. The aged no longer move 
about with the freedom once given by 
sun energy. Their bodies incline toward 
the earth. The lines of the face crease 
downward. The mental and physical 
environment grows narrower. The in- 
evitable end is the inability of the sun 
power to penetrate the organism, to 
longer affect it. 

When integration from the unseen 



48 EVOLUTION Otf THI$ INDIVIDUAL. 

ends, individual life on this sphere ends, 
and disintegration has full sway. 

Sun power has created and animated 
every form upon the earth. Science 
has proven that primeval forms were 
crude and coarse compared with those 
of to-day. With the progress of the 
ages finer forms, with more complex 
natures developed. Finer, more potent 
vibrations became shapes. This pro- 
cess of the embodiment of finer vibra- 
tions, more mind or sun vibrations, less 
earth vibrations, can be clearly traced 
in the entire growth of the material 
world and humanity, from the first begin- 
nings to the man of to-day with his 
complicated life; and his possession of 
more mastery than ever before. 

Evolution then is the continued en- 
trance into shapes of finer and finer 
vibrations. It is not a rapid process. 



THE CHECKING OF GROWTH. 



49 



Individual life which can maintain the 
necessary rate of vibration, increasing 
it ever so slowly, may keep har- 
monious step with all the ages and 
remain young with all life. The rosy 
child grows and thrives upon the same 
air and sunshine as surrounds the par- 
ents and old age tottering by its side. 
The sole difference between child and 
parent is ability to receive integrating 
power — that power surrounding both, 
within the grasp of all. 

Man has sought the fountain of 
youth in things outside of himself. He 
has in the search turned his back upon 
the real fountain within himself, choked 
with the false growth of sense impres- 
sions. The fountain of youth, of eternal 
life, is within. When sought in man's 
own consciousness, disappointment and 
failure will no longer be his lot. 



SO EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

When the law of integration and 
disintegration, of higher and lower 
vibrations, has received the same study 
as has been given to electricity, the 
results will be infinitely more astonish- 
ing, infinitely more beneficial to human 
kind. The true understanding of this 
most simple of laws means the solution 
of every problem of life, the drawing 
into close communion with the one great 
heart of the Universe— living and mov- 
ing in the radiance of the One power* 



CHAPTER V, 



LOVE AND DESIRE. 



We understand now the first prin- 
ciples of life and we may have a glimpse 
of the laws of love and life. But that 
this knowledge should be of any value 
to us we must take the first step in 
making application of the principles 
to ourselves. We cannot do that unless 
we see clearly what we ought to love 
and what we ought to desire. Desire 
and love alone decide whether we shall 
progress upward or downward. 

Some think that will power decides 
character. On the contrary it is our 
desires, back of will, that decide in what 
direction the latter shall be used, The 

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52 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

man who plans highway robbery is fol- 
lowing the desire, which he thinks will 
bring him the most pleasure, the miser 
pursues his desire, the drunkard is 
dominated by his. No man really rises 
to and improves upon a higher plane 
without having higher desires. 

What all men are seeking is perma- 
nent contentment or happiness. 

One thinks money will secure this, 
another believes fame to be the panacea, 
another seeks it in art. All these have 
good in them but as an ultimate they 
fail entirely to satisfy. They cannot 
give full human satisfaction. When 
won they prove to be but bagatelles. 
They do not change the condition of the 
real man. Man has desired and secured 
every object upon the face of the earth. 
Not one has brought permanent happi- 
ness. 



LOVE AND DKSIRE. 53 

If then, all earthly things turn to 
ashes in his hands, what shall he desire? 
Simply No-thing, but the creative power 
that forms all things. 

Man should desire creative and creat- 
ing power instead of created things. 
Instead of longing to possess certain 
earthly objects or external conditions 
and making them the ultimate of his 
desires, he should aim to make himself 
the conductor through which finer and 
finer vibrations will find expression 
upon this plane. Man still needs money, 
jewels, paintings, fine horses and beauti- 
ful homes and other treasures. But a 
new era is dawning in which they will 
be but mile stones that mark his pro- 
gress upward, not the aim or object of 
his journey. 

Fame and friendship, then, will no 
longer be the aim of the enlightened 



54 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

man but that which flows naturally to 
him because of his refinement, his power 
and his growth. Barthly objects as a 
sole aim do not bring to man content- 
ment and happiness, but slavery. For 
they can never be the real objective 
point of his life. No man that is normal 
can be really satisfied to have everything 
he needs given to him. What he most 
desires and seeks, more or less blindly, 
is the power to command what he needs, 
and to attract those who can aid him. 
In this lies the key to the true philos- 
ophy of life. The key that will liberate 
man from his slavery to earthly com- 
missions and enable him to begin im- 
mediately a magnificent, all conquering 
march towards perfection. 

Man does not wish to beg money but 
to control the power that commands it. 
Man does not wish to solicit another 



I,OVE AND DESIRE. 55 

man or woman to love him but to mani- 
fest such lovable qualities and power 
that he commands it and it comes to him 
naturally and without effort. 

Power, then, more and finer power, 
is in reality the object, the goal of man's 
desire. If it is ample it will gratify 
every craving. The continual influx of 
finer and more potent power will bring 
to man from all parts of the world that 
which he needs, with a certainty as un- 
erring as gravity draws water down- 
ward. This power cannot be resisted— 
this sun power — and no one but man 
himself can prevent himself from receiv- 
ing its invincible strength. 

From the mind a great burden is 
lifted, once unity of desire is recognized. 
Much of our anxiety and suffering is 
caused by the conflict of different de- 
sires. But unification of desire gives 



56 EVOLUTION OF the; individual. 

a new poise and a clear focus to the 
mind. Each advance in unification 
brings greater permanent freedom and 
a new illumination of mind and body. 
The steady influx of finer powder brings 
harmonious surroundings. Each man's 
environment is an expression of the 
kind and character of his power. When 
the mind is clearly concentrated in one 
direction no obstacle can remain in its 
path. Nothing but a conflict of desires 
hinders our permanent success. There 
are countless instances of poor men with 
slight mental capacities who have gained 
fortunes by concentration of mind upon 
money making. They won, but the 
object of their desires ended in enslav- 
ing them. Many people desire money 
above all things but they also desire 
many things that prevent their saving 
money. Other people like ease and 



I,OV# AND DKSIRS. 57 

would rather think of pleasure than bus- 
iness. Thus they are swayed from 
side to side with a sacrificing of power 
through conflicting desires. Progress 
under such conditions is almost impos- 
sible. 

The desire for power will bring bus- 
iness success and at the same time 
happiness and freedom. Every individ- 
ual should then strive for power, more 
power and finer power, for the finer is 
always the more potent. If man desires 
power he must look for it where it 
abides, and open his consciousness to it. 
The highest and finest power is cer- 
tainly not to be found in any integrated, 
or so called material object. Man, in- 
stead of looking to things for the aim 
and object of his life, must open his 
mind to integration of the finer vibra- 
tions of evolution. He must study his 



58 EVOLUTION OF The individual. 

relation to the one power and learn how 
he can favor the integration of more 
and finer vibrations into his brain, body 
and surroundings. Man now shuts out 
from his mind the growing perfecting 
principle. This is why he does not 
manifest greater and greater power. 
This is why he does not progress 
toward perfection and does not thor- 
oughly master this plane of life To 
succeed he must concentrate all desire 
upon power and not upon a number of 
objects. Power must be the only desire. 
This removes desire from out of the 
realm of the visible world and leaves 
man not a single object to pin his desire 
upon. It compels him to move desire 
toward the source of life, to carry it 
into the realm of the invisible. Man's 
eyes are lifted away from the earth and 
his mind is opened to the invisible vibra- 



I.OVE AND DESIRfC. 59 

tions of power which are too fine to be 
seen and too powerful to be imprisoned 
in any earthly object. 

This recognition of the one desire 
which comprehends all others not only 
causes the harmonious growth of the 
individual, but tends to unify humanity 
by attuning each and all to the One 
power. 

Great is the revelation, too, when it 
is realized, that by this recognition the 
poorest, lowest and humblest can receive 
these all conquering invisible vibrations 
as easily as those who seem more 
favored with earthly fortune. In fact, 
far more readily, for the rich and favored 
are apt to be more attached to earthly 
objects than the unfortunate. 

This knowledge makes each man the 
arbiter of his own fate. All the world 
cannot deprive him of the invisible vibra- 



60 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

tions, nor can all the world resist them. 
The invisible mental, sun rays, like the 
visible ones, shine for all alike and each 
individual should absorb them and grow 
upward through them according to his 
own individual genius and character. 



CHAPTER VI 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 



The relation between the formation 
of a planet, health, happiness and bus- 
iness success may seem remote. But 
each point in the preceding- chapters 
has been explained for the sole purpose 
of aiding the individual to meet and 
master the every day problems of life. 
The value of all knowledge is dependent 
entirely upon its helpfulness to the 
individual. 

Ifife upon this planet is the expres- 
sion in shapes of the one power which 
finds its highest practical expression to 
us in the sun. The vibrations of this 
power expressed through shapes become 

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62 EVOLUTION OF THK INDIVIDUAL. 

steadily finer and more potent and pro- 
duce what is called evolution. 

When any life form ceases to receive 
the finer invisible vibrations it loses its 
power of individual expression and 
leaves the manifestation of greater per- 
fection to the succeeding generations. 
Man's one desire in order to bring him 
contentment, growth and victory must 
be to receive more and finer vibrations 
of power from the invisible, that these 
fine vibrations may flow forth into the 
visible and thus continually change him 
and his environment. 

There is no evidence that a man's 
body cannot exist forever. If he should 
so live as to always be receptive to the 
integrating vibrations he might continue 
to receive the growing power and retain 
the qualities of youth indefinitely. The 
steady influx of the invisible vibrations 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 63 

of creative power is worth more to man 
than all the riches and fame of the 
earth. In receiving this power he gains 
exactly what he needs, besides that 
which is greater than riches and fame. 
He is freed from all disappointments 
for his life grows steadily more perfect. 

How can the occupied man or 
woman, girl or boy receive more of this 
power now and make such use of it as 
to give them growth and mastery? 

It is plain that the recognition of 
the unity of desire and the adoption of 
the principles supporting it means a 
complete reversal of the polarity of the 
mind, yet it is the same as has been in a 
measure adopted by all great men. It 
is taught by the best in all religions and 
is the lesson to be learned from the 
Greatest of all teachers. The individual 
who begins to apply these principles 



64 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

will find the highest in religious life 
and the most practical in mental and 
business life uniting to produce growth 
toward absolute individual freedom and 
perfection. These principles reveal 
that our mental attitude toward the 
unknown or invisible, even in the 
smallest detail of daily life, is of far 
greater importance than our relation to 
people and things. Let the individual 
then seek within and not without for 
the creative power which is to give him 
mastery over the affairs of each day. 
Then his needs will be supplied from 
whatever direction this power may draw 
them. Men who succeed draw only that 
which the power within them is able to 
command. Successful men create the 
conditions surrounding them instead of 
being sub j ec t to them. Napoleon believed 
that a power presided over his life against 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 65 

which nothing human could prevail. 
He was invulnerable until he turned 
from within to without and became 
disturbed over his relations to the 
aristocracy. In this attitude of mind 
he gave personalities more power over 
him than the invisible within, thus 
breaking integration. Wellington, who 
was more unswerving, and controlled by 
the power within remained a master to 
the day of his death. 

To aid the power-seeking individual 
the methods by which the influx of the 
creative power can be favored are 
indicated as follows: 

1st. Attitude of mind. 

2nd. Taking power and higher 
vibrations into consciousness. 

3rd. A sound hygiene. 

4th. Mental breathing. 

The divisions are purely arbitrary as 



66 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

the sole question in reality is what is 
taken into the consciousness and the 
sole aim is to dwell in the presence 
of the creative power instead of forms 
and disintegration. 

ATTITUDE OF MIND. 

When the individual has once de- 
cided that his supreme desire is for 
creative power his view of and relation 
to the entire world is changed. He 
identifies himself with the only power 
manifested to him. He regards all the 
world as a varied expression of this one 
power. No matter whom or what he 
meets he recognizes the animating prin- 
ciple as the same as that within himself, 
and he determines by absorbing the 
fine vibrations to rise superior to the 
lower and less potent. He realizes that 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 67 

all things are partial shadows contain- 
ing much earth and a little sun vibra- 
tion. He discovers that when he wills 
he can absorb the power direct instead 
of taking it as a weak reflected light 
from things. He knows that by think- 
ing of his relations to the creative power, 
instead of worrying about his relation 
to things, he becomes a channel for the 
receipt and radiation of the light of 
power and life; a potency in a universe 
of activity. 

To-day he thinks only of the Now 
and the Here because if he does not he 
cannot open his mind to the influx of 
power. He will realize that the more 
he thinks of time and space the less he 
can think of power; that thinking of 
limitations continually cannot give 
power. It will dawn upon him that he 
is not subject to any earth power for he 



68 EVOLUTION OF ?HE INDIVIDUAL. 

can receive the creative power direct 
from its source. Parental limitations 
imposed at birth may grow less. Hered- 
itary traits may be softened or removed. 
Things of lower vibrations that seem 
obstacles are overcome by a mind re- 
ceiving potent vibrations. In all 
the individual finally understands that by 
taking this attitude of mind, of looking 
to the sun power and receiving its 
vibrations, mastery over all things is 
given. 

TAXING POWER AND HIGHER VIBRATIONS 
INTO CONSCIOUSNESS. 

E)ach individual life is given charac- 
ter by what it takes into the conscious- 
ness. The man who thinks only of how 
he can get ahead of his fellows will 
never become a philosopher and the man 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 



69 



whose only anxiety is for himself will 
not be a philanthropist; a horse dealer 
will not become a diamond expert. The 
individual who can take up a new line of 
thought and leave agreeable or disagree- 
able pictures out of his consciousness 
can to that extend eradicate heredity. 
Heredity is a straw man built to 
frighten people into the belief that they 
can only think and breathe through 
their parents. Who could have told 
what Newton or Spencer would become 
by their parents, ancestors or even their 
own lives at maturity? A single change 
in thought and habit may make lines of 
heredity grow fainter and fainter. 

Heredity does make certain habits 
and thoughts and activities easier, but 
it does not prevent the mind from 
selecting a new line of thought, cultivat- 
ing new desires and living a free individ- 



70 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

ual life distinct from the hard limitations 
of the parents. 

The development of each individual 
depends absolutely upon what is taken 
into the consciousness; heredity gives 
direction to desire. 

The man who is poor may take 
opulence into his consciousness but 
heredity has given him a mental bent that 
makes it easier for him to worry or to 
be content that he is poor or to suffer 
from the thought that his condition can- 
not be remedied. Let him realize that 
he is not limited from without but from 
within, that when he can think inde- 
pendently of his surroundings he can 
conquer them; that by taking the crea- 
tive power of the universe into his 
consciousness he may grow steadily 
stronger, clearer-headed, more master- 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 71 

ful and he will begin to demonstrate 
these qualities in his daily life. 

Grain is stunted when it receives no 
direct light from the sun. The human 
mind is stunted when it feels that hered- 
ity and environment make it. I^et the 
individual worry, grow angry and strive 
to work and conquer in the world way 
and he feels but the low vibrations- 
reflected rays from the sun of life. 
What the individual needs to learn is to 
constantly think of his relation to the 
universal mind— life or light within- 
then anxiety as to relations with things 
and people disappears as shadows before 
the dawn of day. 

The mind cannot be darkened by the 
shadow of anxiety and open to the light 
of power at the same time. Which 
should we choose? 



72 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

Mental food is obtained from two 
sources. 

Through the senses or back door we 
acquire knowledge and act or react upon 
things. Through the front or inner 
door we grow by absorbing direct from 
the universal mind. The first gives us 
comparison and discrimination. The 
second changes our attitude toward 
things and carries us to higher and 
higher planes. The front door is wide 
open in childhood and gradually closes 
as year after year we only look out of 
the back door of the mind at things. Yet 
the front door may be perpetually open 
and the invited guests from the world 
of creative power be freely passed 
through, bringing in their hands to the 
individual, strength, growth, love and 
power. 

To be strong, masterly and success- 



I 

ImisibleSiinVubroUons ///. L 1 
Creative Energy ///Hi. 

Inspiration //f/j 



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EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 75 

ful, weakness and failure and servility 
and things must not be thought of. 
The mind must direct itself to the real 
source of power and by concentrating 
itself upon that, realize that one of the 
direct rays are more powerful than all 
the earth's reflections; thus it will 
become a channel of light and strength. 
In reality we are at one with the uni- 
verse. We are part of its infinite power 
and freedom. Why then should we be 
crushed by the things and conditions 
around us? We are like the fish of the 
sea which has left the depths and 
ascended river, creek and rivulet until 
it finds itself hemmed in by rocks and 
crowded by the shallow bottom. All 
the world seems to be forcing it out 
of its life element. That is the way 
the individual feels at some time dur- 
ing life. 



76 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

The fish was once free in his uni- 
versal element — water — but his head 
turned away from the sea and he is 
lost until he reverses his position and 
then once more the boundless ocean 
opens to him. Just so the individual 
has had his face turned toward the 
concrete, the lowest vibrations. The 
instant he faces about and begins to 
receive the finer invisible vibrations he 
travels rapidly toward the ocean of 
universal mind. His limitations then 
begin to fade. He is free. He turns 
toward the center of power and is 
master of all earthly things. 

A SOUND HYGIENE. 

In the light of the law relating to 
vibrations many errors in daily life are 
discovered. It is ascertained that the 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 77 

vibrations of disintegration or decay 
must not be taken into the physical 
system. It is harmful to breathe the 
fumes of decay. Why is it not harmful 
to fill the stomach with decaying 
matter ? Yet flesh and fermented 
foods including acoholic beverages, vin- 
egar, etc., are taken into the human 
system without the slightest regard as 
to their being unfit, unwholesome and 
disastrous to the mind as well as to the 
body. Chemical or inorganic sub- 
stances should be avoided including 
salt, baking powders, soda, etc. Their 
vibrations are low. Biology has proved 
they can not be assimilated. We 
should guard the stomach as carefully 
as we should the mind. Especially 
true is it that with physical deep 
breathing, reasonable exercise, whole- 
some and frequent bathing, regular 



78 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL,. 

hours of sleep, association with the 
best and not with the mediocre, with 
good common sense, we should study, 
look inward, work inward, conquer 
disintegration, invite integration, rise 
to mastery and not fall to decay. 

MENTAL BREATHING. 

Life depends upon breath. Food is 
but a secondary support. This is a 
new illustration that the finest power 
is the most potent. 

Food, the lowest vibration incor- 
porated into our life, may be dispensed 
with for a month or more. Water, a 
higher vibration, is far more necessary. 
Air, a still higher vibration, cannot be 
excluded from the lungs five minutes. 
It is probable if the mind could be shut 
off entirely from receiving new in- 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 79 

visible vibrations life would cease 
instantly. 

Much attention is paid by man to 
food and water. Occasionally he gives 
a little thought to his breathing. But 
there is scarcely one in a thousand 
whose mind ever takes in a strong 
breath of the mental atmosphere of 
universal mind or creative power. Our 
minds only live when changing con- 
stantly from one state to another. In 
our hours of activity it flashes from one 
idea to another with ceaseless motion. 
Nearly all our thoughts are of things 
or concrete ideas. This focusing of 
the mind upon concrete things is 
parallel to contraction of the lungs. In 
other words thinking constantly of 
things contracts the mind and prevents 
it breathing or receiving stimulating 
power from the mental atmosphere, as 



80 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

contracting the chest shuts out the 
physical atmosphere from the lungs. 
If it were not for moments of abstrac- 
tion which come upon us almost 
unawares, the mind might not be saved 
at all. They do relieve it. Sleep also 
is a saving power; with it our con- 
sciousness passes into finer vibrations. 
The philosophy of sleep is not more nor 
less than this— that the mind cannot 
remain focused upon the low vibrations 
of the material world for any length of 
time without complete loss of power. 
Thus, this being true, consciousness 
for about one-third of our lives retires 
to the finer vibrations of creative or 
sun energy and by such retirement the 
mind receives an influx of new power. 
If this were not so the mind as we 
know it would cease to be. 

Innumerable men and women fix 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 81 

their minds so closely upon material 
things during their waking hours that 
the plane of consciousness is unable to 
pass fully into the finer vibrations to 
light and they have comparatively 
little sleep, rest or growth during the 
resting hours or retirement. This is 
especially true among those individuals 
who have kept up for the longest time 
concentration of mind upon the material 
things, or those who daily master the 
largest number of details requiring 
special mental effort. These two 
classes are represented by the aged and 
the high pressure business men. They 
suffer from insomnia, and steadily lose 
strength. 

It is essentially the business worker 
of life who needs to cultivate mental 
breathing and thus increase his or her 
supply of finer vibrations and with 



82 EVOLUTION OH THE INDIVIDUAL. 

them added life. In the train of 
added life follow wisdom, happi- 
ness and mastery; more and more 
of the universal and less and less of 
the concrete. To return for an instant 
to a previous statement, the mind 
vibrates during waking hours from one 
idea to another. 

There is no consciousness except 
there is a continual change or vibration 
of the mind from one subject to 
another. Many have made the mistake 
of trying to concentrate the mind upon 
a single object or idea. If then the 
mind must continually change we 
should instead of keeping it focused 
upon concrete things allow it to vibrate 
from things to power. For power is 
now the aim of our desire, and that 
which we take into our consciousness 
flows out into expression. The man 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 83 

whose consciousness alternates images 
with invisible power will be very 
different from the man whose mind 
travels the eternal round of things. 

To express it differently, between 
our succession of images we can take 
the finer vibrations of power into our 
consciousness. The mind, then, instead 
of vibrating from one thing to another 
will go from an object or idea to power 
and then to another object and again 
to power and so on ad infinitum. This 
changing of mind from things to power 
must be practiced regularly. Time 
should be taken for it. The habit 
must be created. The mind must be 
accustomed to breathing in this man- 
ner. Eventually it will involuntarily 
act and keep on taking power through 
established custom. This new activity 
of the mind may be practiced in the 



84 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

midst of business cares and results will 
be obtained, impossible in the old 
mental attitude. 

Mental breathing means only estab- 
lishing a continuous flow of new and 
finer thoughts into the mentality and an 
expulsion of the old exhaustion, anxiety 
and laborious work. 

In practicing mental breathing it is 
best to rest lying down or sitting in an 
easy chair, relaxing body and mind. 
Draw in a full, deep breath — one of those 
physical breaths, that is from the 
stomach, which affects the abdominal 
muscles, and is not from the top of the 
lungs. Drop all thoughts of the world, 
or things and persons. Obliterate them 
from your mind. Let the feeling come 
upon you that you are journeying 
toward the mental sun. Feel as if you 
were resting in an infinite sea of life, 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 85 

law and power which contains all the 
potentialities but no forms, or in 
absolute spiritual Being according to 
the conception that appeals most to 
you. As soon as your lungs are com- 
pletely filled and as you slowly exhale 
permit the consciousness to return to 
ordinary thought; taking in power as 
the breath is inhaled again. This 
alternating the mind from things to 
power should be continued for from 
twenty to fifty breaths or until a per- 
fect restful condition is produced. If 
you know aught of physical exercise 
you know the value of deep lung 
breathing, how it not only expands and 
enlarges but gives greater power of 
blood. It produces a greater activity 
in all physical life. Mental breathing 
accomplishes for the mind precisely 
the same result, bringing rest, pros- 



86 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL,. 

perity, happiness and an influx of crea- 
tive power. 

Success may not come at first. 
Letting go of things or concrete ideas 
may not be possible on the instant, or 
in a day or a week. This only shows 
the greater necessity for perseverance. 
Every effort produces some effect. No 
one can fail. The universal center of 
power will draw nearer and become 
more real and potent after each ex- 
ercise. Absolute individual freedom 
will be the end. In addition to this 
special practice when performing any 
act, shut out the thought of other 
things, shut out calculations and 
worry, open the mind to the influx of 
creative power. Adapt the mind to 
thinking of but one thing at one time. 
Many times during each day as a 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 87 

physical breath is inhaled, let the 
mind inhale power also. 

Reverse the polarity of the mind. 
Instead of looking for happiness and 
success, seek the power to command 
them where it is, in the invisible 
within. Youth will be prolonged 
indefinitely. Mastery over conditions 
will come. Growth toward perfection 
will be steady. Mighty as are the 
results of mental breathing, the prac- 
tice is simple and without trouble. 
Hundreds of times a day the busiest 
man or woman can find time to flash 
the consciousness from things to the 
realm of power. He or she will be 
f learning to master by mental growth 
instead of working in the treadmill 
of the earth plane. The way for 
continual inspiration will be open. 
The individual has but to inhale 



88 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

power with the mind as he inhales 
air with the lungs and he must grow 
finer and more powerful. 

It is because the lungs, like a pend- 
ulum, vibrate from the conscious to the 
subconscious, from the voluntary to the 
involuntary, from the individual to the 
Universal that they and their cor- 
responding mental function act as a 
powerful lever, enabling man to loosen 
the hold of heredity and environment 
and let in the creative power that will 
regenerate and free him. The first 
and most positive effect of the mental 
breathing will be apparent when the 
individual is under the influence of 
anger, hate, worry, anxiety, fear, crav- 
ing for stimulants. 

No matter how strong these emo- 
tions, the consciousness can be carried 
into the finer realm of power for an 
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EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 89 

instant as the breath is inhaled and 
this is sufficient to let in the finer 
vibrations of new creative power. 
The cloud will pass away and the 
mind will be illuminated by the full 
light of the sun. These emotions 
darken life and bar the influx of crea- 
tive energy. Anger, just or unjust, 
is a cloud that stops growth and 
injures. Worry of any kind shuts out 
light from life. It is absolutely impos- 
sible to desire light and growth and 
at the same time worry as to your 
relations to things and people. The 
individual can afford to drop the 
burden and breathe in power just as he 
can afford to drop pain for a pleasure 
or an unprofitable for a profitable 
thought. 

The purpose is to break our attach- 
ment to the earth and things, to be- 



90 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

come so filled with creative power, so 
poised that mastery of the lower vibra- 
tions upon the plane of things is cer- 
tain by the mere force of being a 
channel for creative power. Nothing 
is easier to accomplish and yet nothing 
is harder because through ages we 
have been maintaining the wrong 
polarity of mind. 

The laborer and clerk, the poet 
and saint can reach this end. Inspira- 
tion will become a constant lamp to 
guide and illuminate the life of all 
instead of a fitful torch in the hands 
of a few. 

The time has come when man can 
poise himself in the one power and 
Principle instead of in things. The 
era of blind race growth is closing 



EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 91 

and the day when the INDIVIDUAL, 
must evolve consciously towards per- 
fection is here. 



CHAPTER VII 



THE DOCTRINE OP LOVE, 



The vibrations of the One Power 
continually manifested through forms 
or shapes has been variously called 
creative power, mental vibrations 
and sun vibrations, but it has also 
a name more properly belonging to the 
plane of emotions and feeling. In the 
realm of mind it is INTELLIGENCE, 
in the realm of feeling it is LOVE. 

Since the appearance of the first 
nebulous mist — the initial or starting 
point — there has been naught but ex- 
pression or manifestation of this love. 
All earth-changes have spoken its lan- 
guage. All changes from the beginning 

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THE DOCTRINE OF I^OVE- 93 

to the present time have been in reality 
working in harmony to perfect indi- 
vidual consciousness. Little matters it 
what our experiences, or to what point 
we may look, we meet naught but love 
and its evidences. And by strange but 
wise contradiction every man or woman 
living under a cloud of distress is gain- 
ing just that experience needed to per- 
fect him or her. Their development is 
as though there was not another indi- 
vidual in existence. 

The lesson which humanity must 
learn, the lesson for which it was 
destined, the lesson which will free it 
from the travail, the woe and sorrow, 
is to seek love or its synonym, light and 
power, at their source within, instead of 
vainly striving for satisfaction through 
earthly objects and things without. 

Love means the concentrating or 



94 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

growing together of all, while the 
darker emotions mean repulsion, scat- 
tering, disintegration. 

When the individual lifts his eyes to 
the sun and in doing so sees only the 
one life light, his inner consciousness 
becomes so filled with power that he 
radiates love to all the world, imitating 
the source of life or becoming part of 
it. He ceases to join in the scramble 
for the faint glimmerings and weak 
power found in things and personal- 
ities. 

All distinctions and differences of 
caste, religion, political conditions, color 
and race are obliterated. It leaves but 
one desire and that the wish to receive 
power, to help others to look upwards. 
Love surrounds the individuals that so 
desire and they learn that light and 
love can alone bring the peace, the com- 



THE DOCTRINE OF LOVE. 95 

fort, the strength they vainly sought in 
the mystic world of things. 

There is but one problem connected 
with the pursuit of happiness and nec- 
essary to the perpetuation of youth. It 
is the problem of receiving and radiat- 
ing love. The measure of our life vital- 
ity and life power is the measure of our 
love. That is the name of the one and 
only power. Love is not a physical 
manifestation. True love is not per- 
ceptible through the five senses. Its 
palace is in the world of the invisible. 
Its gardens and pleasure grounds are 
by the fountain of the source of life. 
Its truths are within the radiance of 
the sun power which first gives us ex- 
istence and which has maintained the 
human identities of this globe for mil- 
lions of years. Love is not to be pur- 
chased, not to be bartered for. The 



96 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

human being can but become a channel 
for the receipt and radiation of the one 
life and love. 

The desire for things brings to the 
individual a false sense of separation, 
physical death, hate, anger, envy, lust, 
and all that is called evil. The desire 
of the individual to become identified 
with the One power which animates all 
nature and life brings mastery over 
things, peace illumination, growth, and 
love. All human unhappiness is caused 
by the former, all happiness will come 
with the latter. In this, there is grati- 
fication of every right desire. In this, 
there is the approach to a realization of 
the perfect. There is gain of new life 
and youth. There is final approach to 
the Ultima Thule. 

END. 



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